President of Guyana Dr. Irfaan Ali
Guyana's government has written the chief executive officers of Facebook and Twitter asking that false maps of Guyana posted by pro-Venezuelan interests be removed from the social media platforms.
It says the correspondence was sent in light of a renewed orchestrated disinformation campaign being waged against Guyana by a number of Spanish-language social media accounts claiming Guyana's territory by publishing illegal maps.
The maps show a large section of the country as Venezuelan territory.
Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud said the social media operatives had been using Facebook and Twitter to propagate a false narrative regarding the controversy between Guyana and Venezuela about the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Award which settled the land boundary between the countries.
The land boundary between Guyana and Venezuela was settled by a legal process of International Arbitration on October 3, 1899.
Pursuant to an 1897 Treaty of Washington both parties agreed to respect the results of the arbitration as a full, perfect and final settlement of the boundary.
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